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| Jamallo Kreen |
Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 00:18:26
These are the essential links for the adventuring band named the Order of the Stick (OOTS). Rich Burlew, the <cough> ... <cough> ... "artist," ... <cough> was the runner-up for Wizards of the Coast "Design the Next Campaign Setting (which we will trash in a few years so we can sell more useless books)" contest. His main page is here, and is worth checking periodically. After you have read a dozen or so strips, the "extras" will make sense to you, and you will also have a better understanding of what he is writing about on his main page (such as whether or not we will see OOTS "4.0" -- which will only be funny if you've read the first OOTS comic strips).
OOTS Cast
The first OOTS comic strip (0001)
OOTS Extras
OOTS Archive (which has the titles of each strip, which ordinarily only appear on the main page, left column, while a strip is current).
Mod edit: Fixed a broken link. 
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| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 18 Jun 2008 : 12:18:56
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Originally posted by Jamallo Kreen
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Originally posted by HawkinstheDM
You could move it to D&D Core Products, not the most accurate of spots for it, but since the comic references the rules on several occasions, it kind of fits.
I concur. Whisk it away, Wooly!
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| Jamallo Kreen |
Posted - 18 Jun 2008 : 06:44:31
quote:
Originally posted by HawkinstheDM
You could move it to D&D Core Products, not the most accurate of spots for it, but since the comic references the rules on several occasions, it kind of fits.
I concur. Whisk it away, Wooly!
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| Hawkins |
Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 17:14:47
You could move it to D&D Core Products, not the most accurate of spots for it, but since the comic references the rules on several occasions, it kind of fits. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 01:02:48
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Originally posted by Jamallo Kreen
And let's not fortget who first mentioned OOTS there, and posted a link to it which another scholar was unable to use, hmmm?)
Yeah, but my link was relevant to the discussion at hand -- I was using OOTS as an artwork example.  |
| Jamallo Kreen |
Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 01:00:00
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I love Order of the Stick; it's one of my fave webcomics (and I do read a bunch of webcomics!).
But... It's not really relevant to the Realms. And since we are a Realms forum, we need to see some Realms-relevance, I'm afraid.
Okay:
1. The OOTS links will not take up space on the scroll with Alaundo's request for Candlekeep logo submissions, thus easing the burden on the server. (And let's not fortget who first mentioned OOTS there, and posted a link to it which another scholar was unable to use, hmmm?)
2. Players in my Forgotten Realms campaign consciously adopt catchphrases from OOTS as a shorthand for rules and for roleplaying activities. Real-world examples from my own campaign (which ought to fit the criterion of Forgotten Realms adventure journalism): "ONE WORD!" because in my campaign I use the 1 page / spell level + 1d6-1 pages rule for scribing spells, and "Familiar who Miss Starshine named" as a reference to wizards and sorcerers tending to have familiars solely for their rules benefits, with no thought at all given to the role-playing implications (one kept a toad in his boot!).
3. Vaarsuvius's spell research towards scrying Roy and Belkar informs AD&D retrofitting of spell research and scrying rules which I felt were superior to 3rd edition; specifically, last year I decided that no visible scrying sensor should appear at a scried location, and an awareness of being scryed should indicate only the P.O.V. of the scryer. This counteracted an earlier description I had given about a year and a half ago about the party becoming aware of a scrying sensor in the air ahead of them as they rode through the Fields of the Dead, which a hawk familiar plucked out of the air, or tried to, an event which was described somewhere on line, either here or on my group's message board. (Note that Vaarsuvius's raven is first introduced to the reader when called upon to enhance V's sight, since V fails a Spot check and needs to be reminded of the familiar's existence.)
4. Rich Burlew addresses the matter of adopting OOTS to 4.New.Coke on his main page, and his unassailable logic should be followed by DMs, in my opinion: "Does it work for my purposes? If it doesn't, I'm not using it."
And that's already thrice as much space as I ever intended to take up discussing OOTS here.
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| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 01:08:19
I love Order of the Stick; it's one of my fave webcomics (and I do read a bunch of webcomics!).
But... It's not really relevant to the Realms. And since we are a Realms forum, we need to see some Realms-relevance, I'm afraid. |
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